Wall Incorporating Dovecote and An Open Fronted Store to the North of Great Rissington Manor
WALL INCORPORATING DOVECOTE AND AN OPEN FRONTED STORE TO THE NORTH OF GREAT RISSINGTON MANOR
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1152791
- Date first listed:
- 28-May-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Wall Incorporating Dovecote and An Open Fronted Store to the North of Great Rissington Manor
- Statutory Address:
- WALL INCORPORATING DOVECOTE AND AN OPEN FRONTED STORE TO THE NORTH OF GREAT RISSINGTON MANOR
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1152791
- Date first listed:
- 28-May-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Wall Incorporating Dovecote and An Open Fronted Store to the North of Great Rissington Manor
- Statutory Address 1:
- WALL INCORPORATING DOVECOTE AND AN OPEN FRONTED STORE TO THE NORTH OF GREAT RISSINGTON MANOR
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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- WALL INCORPORATING DOVECOTE AND AN OPEN FRONTED STORE TO THE NORTH OF GREAT RISSINGTON MANOR
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Gloucestershire
- District:
- Cotswold (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Great Rissington
- National Grid Reference:
- SP1944317148
Details
GREAT RISSINGTON GREAT RISSINGTON MANOR
SP 1917-2017
9/149 Wall incorporating dovecote
and an open-fronted store
to the north of Great Rissington
Manor
GV II
Wall and open-fronted store in the grounds of Great Rissington
Manor. Probably built c1929 as part of garden designed by
Falconer, Baker and Campbell. Limestone rubble wall. Corrugated
iron roof to the open-fronted store. The wall c3m in height, runs
west from the gable end of the north range for about 20m, at which
point there is a pier c4m in height with a pagoda-shaped dovecote
at the top of the wall then returns north towards for c3m to join
the gable end of the open-fronted store. Another wall then runs
away at right angles from about half-way along the rear wall of the
store. The wall linking the north range to the dovecote has flat
coping and an opening flanked by square piers adjacent to the gable
end of the north range. Corner pier with pagoda-shaped dovecote
with projecting moulded landing platforms and pyramidal finial with
a small ball at the apex. The other sections of walling have
saddleback coping. Four-bay open-fronted store facing east. Each
bay is divided by a square stone-built pier.
(P. Cane, Modern Gardens, British and Foreign, 1926, p70-72; and
J. Sales, West Country Gardens, 1980, p65)
Listing NGR: SP1944317148
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 130882
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Cane, P, Modern Gardens British and Foreign, (1926), 70-72
Sales, J, West Country Gardens, (1980), 65
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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